How do i know how long my shovelnose shark can go without eating?

Question

I have a shovelnose shark and i wanted to know how long he can go without eating and how can you tell if there dieing?

Answer 1

I don't know how long they can go without eating, but its not very long. Probably a week at most. I wouldn't suggest you do any experiments though, you should keep on feeding it :) There are many symptoms that can tell you if a fish has a disease, it may have white specs on it's scales which indicate Ick...Or it may not be moving much which would indicate ammonia/nitrate poisoning..there are hundreds of fish diseases so I can't just tell you how to know if it's dying..if you do not want to take care of it anymore you can take it to a pet store like Petco or Petsmart and they will take it.